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Slew's Tizzy

Post Position 5

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Career Earnings: 385,252

 

  • In career-best form after winning the Grade 2 Lexington over Polytrack at Keeneland and the Grade 3 Lone Star Derby over a sloppy dirt track at Lone Star Park.

  • Sire Tiznow won back-to-back Breeders’ Cup Classics in 2000 and 2001. He was named Horse of the Year in 2000 and champion older male in 2001.

  • Great-great grandsire Seattle Slew won the 1977 Triple Crown.

  • Colt was bred by owner Joseph LaCombe.

  • Slew’s Tizzy is a big horse, measuring over 17 hands tall.

  • Slew’s Tizzy was involved in the spill at Fair Grounds in the Risen Star that nearly sent Circular Quay to the ground.

  • Dam Hepatica was bought privately by LaCombe’s advisor, Noel Murphy.

  • Robby Albarado has ridden Slew’s Tizzy in the colt’s last two starts, but will ride Curlin in the Belmont Stakes.

 

TRAINER - Greg Fox  

Fox, 55, is a retired racetrack veterinarian originally from New York City who now resides in the Lexington , Ky. He and his wife Jamie have two sons, Tanner and Tyler.  Fox and his family live on the 37-acre Fox Stables, which is close to Keeneland and The Thoroughbred Center, a training facility where Fox’s runners workout.  Jamie Fox had trained on and off for about 20 years.

 

JOCKEY - Rafael Bejarano

Won a track record seven races at Turfway Park on March 12, 2004. The following day, he won five more races to set the track record for most wins in a meet (114). He would eventually finish the meeting with 196 victories.

Has been leading rider at Hoosier Park, Ellis Park, Turfway Park, Churchill Downs (spring, 2004) and Aqueduct (winter, 2005).

Won 455 races to lead all North American jockeys in 2004. Ramon Dominguez finished second with 383 wins.

 

OWNER - Joseph LaCombe

LaCombe, 74, campaigned undefeated juvenile Favorite Trick, who won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and was crowned Horse of the Year in 1997.  A native of Brooklyn , he has homes in West Palm Beach , Fla. and Cincinnati , Ohio .  He is a retired regional vice president of Howard Schultz and Associates and was also president of one of the firm’s franchises.